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Dan Mitchell

@danmitchell.bsky.social
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Reporter based in Oakland. An American, Chicago-born. Here, documenting the mainstream news media's catastrophic dysfunction and total failure to meet the moment.

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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 24m
Big 3 networks salivated over Canks calling Jack Smith “deranged” but when actual derangement spews like lava from gop mafia they just can’t be bothered.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 1h
Adolph SHITler, am I right?
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 3h
In retrospect, it’s not all that surprising that she turned out like this. The signs were all there, as they nearly always are.
Taylor Lorenz declaring the people took Peter Thiel “out of context” when he said “If you’re evil you’re not bad. You’re actually maybe kind of good.”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14h
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 14h
Again: there’s no bottom.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 15h
Presented in a tone and with framing similar to “Obama Releases New Budget Proposal.”
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 15h
Good Christ. There’s no bottom.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 17h
“Fewer.”
Stannis Baratheon from “Game of Thrones.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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“Causes stir”
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 18h
Cut in staffing, cut in pay, or cuts on 20 percent of their bodies. CBS News had three chances here to write clear copy, but decided to just paste in the same thing three times.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h
Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 19h
So, this story is super-weak. It's based on a single interview with an "industry insider." Not even a "CBS insider." However, Dylan Byers, who has spent his entire career as a media reporter, believes it's "surreal" that people believe that CBS might fire a historically incompetent executive.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23h
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h
weird who gets a response in 11 minutes and who gets one in 6-9 months!
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 23h
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 23h
perfect. no notes.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 23h
I will never remember which Kelce is Taylor's Kelce, and I'm ok with that.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 23h
One would have to be a paid subscriber to learn whether Bloomberg addressed the question of what might happen to solar farms built to power the "AI boom" when the "AI boom" inevitably busts. But my strong guess is that it didn't. (Not that building solar farms isn't a good idea).
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Kayt Sukel @kaytsukel.bsky.social · 23h
It wokld be great to get that reporting. Good thing @marisakabas.bsky.social is asking potential sources to contact her…
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I hope we get some real reporting on how this came to happen. Did Schmitt know it was a lie, but believe that Smith somehow wouldn’t be able to disprove it on the spot? Or was it that he really just jumped the gun in the most idiotic possible way? What was with them yanking away that placard? Etc.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I look around and see how horrifying everything is and I despair. But then I think about how much worse it could all be. After all, we could have ended up with that lady who used the word "deplorables" to describe deplorable people. So, count your blessings.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The slop itself isn't the problem. The problem is the massive numbers of people who see obviously fake shit and think it's real. Look at the comments here. It's the same thing with Trump and MAGA. Trump isn't the primary problem: MAGA is. And not even really MAGA, but rather
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your periodic reminder that Benny Johnson has a large audience of drooling morons thanks largely to the fact that @semaforben.bsky.social championed him and shepherded his, um, career. He hired him, then fired him (under pressure) for plagiarism, then helped him get RW propaganda jobs.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So, wait. Might this have been written before the exchange ever happened?
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was the second thing I thought of after "My Christ, what an idiot."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile?
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Somehow, nobody ever named a vaguely skeevy liberal podcast after this guy.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Muse Charm is the Cybertruck of Segways.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, but watch: they'll elevate the equally unqualified Nick Bilton's goofy ass into the position.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
called it radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
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EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Muse Charm is the Cybertruck of Segways.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the arc of centrism bends towards right-wing nationalist monoculture. or it would bend that way, if it had started anywhere else
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The trickle down effects of fuel prices on social services
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Barney T @omnibarn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was 8 years old when my home state elected this man to the Senate. I had a Millenium Falcon and a Cloud City Playset. Now I am 53 with a bad hip and a mortgage. Still have the Falcon and my home state is still has this clown.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd almost feel bad for his standing section having to pretend this is normal if they weren't such a knot of toads.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let’s play Guess Which Party.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My Facebook dummy account has shown me three of these today, all from different pages.
A picture of Sarah Palin with “1964-2026” written across it.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As I've been saying for years, they're all amalgamating into one group: "contrarians." If you're reflexively skeptical of "liberals" (and also perhaps forgiving or welcoming of fascists) you, too, can be part of this movement. Reactionary centrist, "rationalist" creep, "populist" lefty. Whatevs.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This guy is not Penske material. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BJ...
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Speeding truck runs light and pops a wheelie at the 11foot8 bridge
YouTube video by yovo68
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, yes, I know: people are very, very gay.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This channel is dedicated entirely to video of trucks crashing into a single low bridge in Ohio where a sensor detects the over-height trucks and sets off a large set of flashing lights as well as a loud alarm. This will tell you more about America than a whole year's worth of The New York Times.
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This is the official channel to document bridge collisions, near misses and anything else the camera might catch. All footage is captured, edited, and analyzed using our dedicated camera setup. We hi...
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All instances of bad behavior are perceived as isolated, as long as the terrible behavior is somehow right-wing-coded. That is: perpetrated, downplayed, and excused by backward white people. E.g., the media apprehends every expression of Nazi sentiment as anomalous, refusing to see the pattern.
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Early '80s shirt. This sentiment was everywhere in Working Class Whiteland.
Harley Davidson shirt: "Hungry? Out of Work? Your Riceburner"
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